This study was an exploratory investigation of the practice of the enterprise architecture (EA) in private and public enterprises in Malaysia. The Zachman Framework was used to evaluate the practice of EA in these enterprises. Ten enterprises from public and private sector participated in the study. Multiple sources including interviews, documents and survey were used as the data sources of the...

V arious IT professionals have, at one time or another, erroneously used the terms software as a service (SaaS) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) interchangeably. At best, this faulty practice creates confusion; at its worst, it can lead to poor designs. Our goal, therefore, is to clarify the meaning of these two often used and abused terms. Briefly stated, the difference between SaaS and...

Software designers have to deal with a large number of distinct software design artifacts (SDAs), including requirements, patterns, and tactics. This paper proposes a technique that systematizes the classification of SDAs, and a classification scheme (CS) which organizes the SDAs into a matrix, in a manner derived from the Zachman Framework for enterprise architecture. An instantiation of this ...

Market and environmental requirements call for constant changes in enterprises. To be able to record these changes in a structured way and to manage them it is helpful to use enterprise architectures as stable regulation frameworks. To support the development and the adaptation of the enterprise architectures there are numerous architecture methods (e.g. Zachman Framework, ARIS (Architecture of...

Knowledge architecture (KA) establishes the basic groundwork for the successful implementation of a short-term or long-term knowledge management (KM) program. An example of KA is the design of a prototype before a new vehicle is manufactured. Due to a transformation to large-scale organizations, the traditional architecture of organizations is undergoing fundamental changes. This paper explores...

The aim of this paper is to provide an HPSG analysis of linear positions of Polish pronominal clitics. The distribution of Polish clitics, though rather free, is more constrained than that of other NPs. Polish clitics either occur preverbally or must closely follow the verb. We treat all Polish pronominal clitics as syntactic items and propose an LP constraint to account for their distribution....